splendent

comparative more splendent · superlative most splendent · alternative obsolete splendant

1. Shining; glossy; lustrous.

   splendent metals

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   splendent planets

   Synonyms: mirrorlike, relucent, sleek, glacé, glassy, glossy, lacquerlike, satiny

2. Very conspicuous; illustrious.

   great and splendent fortunes

   1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC

   Synonyms: apparent, evident, apparent, arrant, undoubted, glaring, bait, blatant

3. archaicSplendid, marvellous, wonderful.

   --And lo! toward me, next, Another of those splendent forms approach'd, That, by its outward bright'ning, testified The will it had to pleasure me.

   1814, The Rev. H. F. Cary, M.A., The Vision of Paradise, Complete

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   After the triumph followed the faire Parthenopeian Leria, with a lawrell crowne, accompanied with Melanthia, whose habites and voices represented the pride of Greece,[A] whereupon the great Macedon rested his head: She bare a splendent lampe, communicating the light thereof with hir companion, then the rest more excellent both in voice and song.

   1592, R.D., Hypnerotomachia

   July 1st, Daun had crossed the Elbe (Daun let us say for brevity, though it is Daun and Karl, or even Karl and Daun, Karl being chief, and capable of saying so at times, though Daun is very splendent since Kolin),--crossed the Elbe above Brandeis; Nadasti, with precursor Pandours, now within an hour's march of Jung-Bunzlau;--and it was time to go.

   1759, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVIII. (of XXI.)

   Synonyms: amazing, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, sensational, awesomesauce, based